chasing the sun

I am starting to post audio works online. This should occur in drips and drabs, as I have time to listen back and winnow out those pieces that really matter. I'll start with the project that began it all, way back in January, 2015. The 239+1 Sessions with musicians extraordinaire Peter Lamb (full disclosure: my cousin) and George Knott. The music is all improv––the vocal parts must be turned up to hear at all, which will result in destruction of the ear drums when Pete's sax comes in. Still, it has a lot going on, way more than your average $ oriented pop record or masturbatory DJ offering. The full recording (slightly edited to cut out moments of extreme flatulence + body part references) us such:

Track 1, Smokescreen: A spontaneous composition recorded in one frenzied take at the Flying Squirrel––an expansion of the "Batman in the alley" mythos. I, with my tribal Philippine flute take the role of a petty criminal just back from typhoon-plagued tropical locales, who has been backed into a dark alley by the Dark Knight. The rest is pretty self explanatory. Batman seems to be in a Tom Waits mood, while the criminal is in heavy self-denial. Pete and I have roots that go back to our first years in 1970s San Francisco, where superhero capes came into play quite often. And Pete is a major Batman fan to this day. I side with the beachside drifters and petty criminals, I guess. Though I would argue that the good+bad dichotomy is never as simple as that presented in comic book pages.